Re: Ignoring local changes

From: Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <4581C1D4.7080102@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e7ab7380612140855p1f4ee6c1l5ef24c4d1d169da6@mail.gmail.com>

Pazu wrote:

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> 2006/12/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> 
>> Correction: I just tested this, and while git-add won't touch the file,
>> git-update-index will, and git-status still shows it as modified.
> 
> Yes, and that's exactly my problems. There are a number of
> modified/removed files in my working copy that were previously added
> to the repository, and git-status shows them as modified/removed, even
> when they're listed in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude
> 
>> This feels like a bug to me.
> 
> Dunno, sounds like this is by design. I acknowledge that my situation
> is unusual, and most often, you'll want to always track a file once
> it's been added to the repository.
> 
> -- Pazu

Why not remove it from the repo, then set .gitignore?

If it is generated code, or compiled code, it probably shouldn't be in the repo in the first place . . . Simply correct that mistake, and you are good to go.